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The truth is NZ is still in love with Jacinda. One of the best leaders we have ever had. This video is a load of contrived BS, put together for the purposes of some right wing agenda.
@@takatamiyagawa5688 She was constantly getting abused and harrassed by anti vaxxers, not to mention death threats, had she stayed she would of won again but anti vaxxers would of protested and rioted, she stepped down to avoid the ugliness
@@frenchskuxx well lets stop looking at the extreme haha how about crime rates flying up, tax rates flying up, education went down as did jobs. She was terrible as government.
What I've been telling non-Kiwis who are shocked at Ardern's resignation is that NZ domestic political issues simply don't make the news overseas, so what people know about Jacinda Ardern is basically the highlights reel (being elected, having a baby in office, eliminating covid, etc.) Little is known internationally about the housing crisis, cost of living, or how Labour has struggled to pivot away from lofty issues like co-governance and state media mergers towards the bread-and-butter economic issues that your average person is most concerned about. Her government just hasn't been able to articulate well enough why these issues matter at a time when people are struggling to afford the basic necessities. She has been an incredible crisis leader and has been willing to make tough decisions where needed. But constant disruption throughout these past six years has made it difficult for her govt. to grasp governing during 'normal times'. The fact is, the transformational politics she promised simply didn't eventuate.
As a non-Kiwi, expecting her to fix the housing crisis, which is usually a decades old issue, is maybe having unrealistic expectations - you can end up with a government that is generally worse because you got rid of somebody who cared about you.
@@kightsun for LVTs to be successful you effectively need to eliminate property taxes, so the government isn’t going to be increasing net revenue, pair that with UBI, and you are looking at a massive budget deficit. “Easy” is a huge, naive overstatement
Because of we had to leave the country, she destroyed the whole countries economy. The damage have already been done by her. I don't think many who have left NZ would return again. From giving shelter to people linked with isis to unemployment, crime and homelessness this can't be undone.
A clear parallel could be drawn between Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau up here in Canada. Unaffordable housing, high inflation, identity politics, increased poverty and personal debt and a “green ‘ policy that’s forcing small farms out of business and into the hands of corporate farming.
Housing Crisis in New Zealand started well before Ardern it actually started during John Key, Ardern said she would build 100,000 houses during her term and she only built 10,000 (which is a big accomplishment; but don't get elected saying you'll do 100% then just do 10%).
As a New Zealander, a couple of interesting observations from this video. The farming community in New Zealand has a strong level of political power in New Zealand. While the farmer is outraged about how much Wellington 'dictates' what they have to do, the solution for taxing emissions was a considerable watering down of what was proposed two years ago, and not enough to meet New Zealand's climate targets. Chris Bishop, opposition spokesperson for the National Party, is incredibly hypocritical given, up until the month of the 2017 election when they lost power to Ardern, they refused to acknowledge New Zealand had a housing crisis. The Ardern government hasn't done enough for this crisis, but the National Party should not be allowed to place the blame completely on this government. Ultimately, her stepping down is the right choice. I think people were tiring of her, but I have also noticed that people are tiring of the Opposition leader. I think New Zealanders will be exhausted and pretty uninspired by the time the October election comes.
I fucking hate farmers. They'll play the victim over anything. If they don't like being dictated to by Wellington, well maybe they shouldn't be flooding our rivers with effluent.
A lot of political unwillingness to really push a lot of meaningful policy, as well as hesitance and poor communication over cannabis legalisation and co-governance that got way out of hand once the opposition started fear-mongering about all of it didn't help. Overall a good leader, certainly a whole lot better than the last lot, but definitely lacking in some areas.
As a Kiwi, I found this to be a very Interesting video. I recently left NZ and have moved to Australia like many people within my age group (20-40). I would say that the housing market was one of the biggest driving factors in my decision, yet I would absolutely be lying if I said this was entirely Labour or Jacinda's fault. We have a national problem that's existed for over a decade, and was worsened by the National government. We have a tax law that incentivizes individuals to invest in property over every other form of investment. This is not Jacinda's fault. Even if politicians were to start taxing property like they taxed income or other investments, like stocks or bonds, it would likely trigger an economic nightmare for at least a decade, and this is why no-ones willing to tackle the problem. But without actually tackling the problem head on like we should, we're going to instead lose out on our young adults and innovative thinkers to countries like Australia or abroad. These are often the people that create diverse businesses, innovative businesses, and help to keep NZ economically and socially diverse. This cycle of 20-40 year olds leaving NZ and returning once they're ready to 'settle down' won't ever stop, until we do something about property. Jacinda led us through some very severe storms, and while she definitely made mistakes, I think she'll ultimately be remembered as the kind PM we needed at the time where the world felt like it was falling apart. Laying the housing problem at her feet I think is severely incorrect.
I feel like we have a similar housing market problem in Australia but I guess it would be less intense than NZ's problem due to the obvious geographical differences.
@@Lockieez I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy! A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary. To compare that to the Netherlands where we also have a huge housing crisis. A average house costs $415294 and the average salary is $41315. You can't even get a mortgage with half the house prices here. How the hell do you buy a house when you need a mortgage on at least $700000?
Awesome comment! So balanced and fair. I thought the comments here would likely be polarised and negative, but instead I'm very grateful for thoughtful, evidence based and balanced comments. Thank you!
@@Lockieez I have recently moved to Perth from NZ and everybody here talks about how much housing has gone up and how expensive fuel is. I have just come from $2.50/L gas and $1,000,000 for a 2 bed 1 bath leaky brick house. Everywhere is feeling the inflation of housing but it feels like NZ is front running Aus by a long shot
Jacinda did fail to get a Capital Gains Tax through though after announcing they would be pushing for one. Maybe not her fault, but a failure nonetheless
She didn't turn down your request because she is shy of the international news media, she turned it down because she was about to be welcomed onto a very significant site in Māoridom and it was entirely inappropriate for you to have been asking to interview her when this was taking place.
@@mherrj when someone is in the middle of a very culturally important ritual or ceremony its rude to interrupt them for something like an "interview". i think you can understand it if you picture how annoying the papparazi can be and then extrapolate it to to a situation involving an important social gathering.
@@callanc3925 I think you're actually underselling it by comparing it to a celebrity eating at restaurant. As wrong as that situation is, I'm sure it doesn't compare to the cultural significance of what she was doing.
Before Arden NewZealand always had a housing problem that nobody talked about!!!! I live in Fiji and family in NZ always complained about high rent and housing issues way before 2017. Great journalism but dig deeper past Ms. Arden
I wanted to move to NZ (I'm from the US) but it would be cheaper to move to Beverly Hills, lol. That was over 10 yr ago. Same story with AU now. Now our housing market looks like yours thanks to speculation by investors.
Indeed, labour has failed to tackle the housing crisis. They deserve criticism for not taking more aggressive action in terms of getting high density housing built. National however ignored the housing crisis for the 8 years before Jacinda took power. They would be the last people I would trust to address it.
The last National Govt were in power for 10yrs they knew we had a housing problem and did absolutely nothing about it at least this Govt was making an attempt.
There was no "housing crisis" under national yes home owners rates went up and the market went stale but rentals weren't affected like they are now. And the only thing labour did was make it so much harder to get a rental
@@chriscomics9415 Where have you been living? Rents started hiking and housing became unaffordable right through National's leadership. I bet you've forgotten but it was National who started putting people in motels. The irony was the minister responsible owned 80 plus rental homes!
You can admire a political figure without liking them. Never disliked Jacinda myself but I admire that she clocked out when she realised she gave her all to the office. Unlike Berlusconi figures that just won't.go.awaaaaay
@@JM-qn3tfdestroying the country? Bro be grateful National wasn’t in power during Covid they would’ve just gave a $100 paknsave voucher and called it a day. Labour doesn’t deserve the hate they get after all they’ve done for the people the rough few years esp during Covid. The financial trouble we’re experiencing is happening everywhere not just NZ.
I think New Zealand is facing issues that a lot of countries are facing - consequences of housing speculation - climate change - global economic issues - cost of living - the aftermath of the covid (not that its really over). All of these issues have no easy solutions and any solution will have losers. I don't envy the politicians who want to be pragmatic and risk their popularity to push policy through to really address these things. People will only look at the top - to pin their hopes but also their anger.
The climate is always changing so you better prepare. The problem is that we blame something called C02 that has not been proving to be the cause of it, only that there is a correlation between temperature and C02. Also we can only eliminate C02 if we start living in caves again. The issue is that we spend trillions trying to eliminate C02 usage instead of spending 1% of it to make us adapt to the change. Also covid is not causing financial issues. If they would have closed the liquor stores and stopped selling sodas, sugar and fatty foods like Mc donnalds and cookies, they would have saves way more lives and money then with all the chamical injections and lock downs. Only old and fat people died WITH a positive covid test. Anyone else with a positive test had no problem. I think that a lot of people start to see this now and therfore Adern lost credibility because she know the facts but tried to hide them by paying huge amount of money to the media.
Jacinda as PM was a joke, she couldn't run a bath! Failed at everything she touched, printed money and spent it lie there was no tomorrow and then when she realised that she had failed she ran off.
@Cha4k lol no. Housing is plentiful, but rents and home prices are high, while wages have remained relatively stagnant.. Thats not an immigration problem.
@@Cha4k Immigrants (or at least new immigrants) compose a very minor portion of housing in NZ. The larger issue is with a lack of new housing supply and with some homeowners owning more than their fair share of property - hogging up the supply of housing.
So basically, her fall resembles that of any politician who made promises that couldn't be kept, whether through their own doing or by external forces.
i wonder how long it'll be before this trend of heads of state stepping down before their term is up spreads to the usa. i think the last president we had step down was nixon.
That's not fully what happened here. It's not that she wasn't quite able to live up to her promises. It was that people here were absolutely sick of the ego-serving spin-doctoring modus operandi of her government. It wasn't just a little shortfall, it was an almost complete contradiction of what they say versus what they do. There was that unsettling feeling that it was always about her, her image, and the party's image first, and the people a distant second. She allowed & played into this narrative of her being "compassionate", while at the same time following her personally stated goal of passing laws to allow the brutal sadistic killing of as many babies as possible - some of the most extreme laws in the world (being allowed to kill them right up to the second before they are born, being allowed to kill them based on preference for gender, or any minor deformity or perceived disability - basically eugenics) and Jacinda personally voting against the babies receiving anesthetic before they are brutally ripped apart alive. Tens of thousands of them. Then she says the COVID lockdown is "to save lives". She could have saved tens of thousands of lives at no cost, by not pushing to genocide babies. She wouldn't want these horrible things done to herself or anyone she cares about. So she knows it's wrong. That's the opposite of compassionate. That's narcissistic / sociopathic. (Caring only about oneself and gladly causing harm and pain to others)
That had to be the most topical "report" I've ever seen from Vice. Why were problems with the housing market unaddressed or exacerbated? Why were there four to five times as many families living in cars? These are the actual reasons for criticism of her policies. What exactly did she do for foreign policy that was unique to her? What part of foreign policy did she improve that another leader could not? These are reasons that would explain why she has supporters. Basically, this video was just a topical summary of the fact that Mary Poppins is stepping down
Reason why theres a housing crisis is because alot of foreign investors have bought a majority of NZs assets including wealthy people who have emigrated, especially on the south island. Reason being is because NZ is one of the safest places to live if there were to be a WW3 due to having no physical borders and being isolated from most surrounding countries.
These homeless crisis is west is war on white people.. they invite rich immigrants, refugees in large numbers without building new housing infrastructure.. We all know how this ends....
As someone in th States, I greatly appreciate the insightful comments left on this video from a lot of New Zealanders. A wealth of important context, which is almost totally absent from this rather shallow coverage. VICE used to have some good reporting, but it is pretty simplistic & superficial these days. A sad decline. What a shame.
As a Kiwi I agree that it was a one-sided assessment of her local achievements. You would think that the great majority of the population wanted her gone. It didn't seem like that to me. Interviewing a farmer who said she led the worst government in 40 years is just bizarre. The serious pollution in our waterways from not fencing off our waterways from cattle was something that obviously needed to happen, as does doing something about reducing the methane production of cows. To be a sustainable industry money needs to be invested and some farmers did not want to change. Many have. The Labour government did a number of initiatives for poverty and mental health that the opposition parties vigorously opposed at the time, like lifting the minimum wage significantly. Overall a surprising lack of balanced reporting. But she is a visionary and an idealist, and one of the most disciplined politicians we have had, and the new Prime Minister is someone who gets things done, much more pragmatic and much more goofy and likeable. It's likely Labour will win the next election although the floods in the North Island response will be important.
@@grandmundi7107 No. It's still possible that Labour wins, but Hipkin's over-exposure as Health Minister during the Covid days is hurting him. He has been blamed for high interest rates for mortgages and the cost of petrol and food. The National Party will give themselves an unnecessary tax cut and give a lot of money to rental property owners, that will lead to higher house prices. And cut services. Grim times for those not so well off, but great for those who can afford overseas holidays and buying a beach house.
@@gjcoop5625 National did a number game - there are many more mid-income earners than low income earners, so it deliberately designed the tax cut to give the most amount to those. So yeah, it's harder to attack, because the real rich don't even get the most out of it, and the foreign buyer tax is too complicated to make much difference anyway.
Lack of affordable housing is a problem that is created over decades and cannot be resolved in a few years for obvious reasons - policy takes time, rezoning takes time, construction takes time. Like most economic policies, the results only become obvious years later when there's someone else in power to take the credit. Also, providing affordable housing affects the supply side, whereas the increase in demand for the housing is a demand-side problem.
LOL This is so fucking funny because I'm half way around the world in Ireland trying to explain this very same problem we have with our housing crisis. People can't wrap their head around the fact it is a supply and demand issue. Not just a supply problem.
The only way you are getting affordable housing is when private property and landlords are abolished. Until then you can keep begging for affordable housing, it ain't coming under capitalism.
No politician can survive the unrealistically rabid expectations of the voters, too many compromises have to be done between the interests of those came before and those that will come later. At the end of the day we get the leaders that best represent both our best and worst aspects.
While that is true not only did she fail at a few things literally every domestic policy she was elected on she never came close to achieving and at the end of the day that’s why she is gone. The amount of money the government has wasted in the last 6 years was unsustainable
With housing/cost-of-living/inflation issues being so rampant across the wealthy parts of the world, I’m finding it harder to blame a party or a single politician for the situation we’re in. It sounds like none of the politicians know what to do about it. Uh oh…
Actually as a politician myself there are ways to handle it but it demands building state or council housing with controlled rent and in order to do that you need better majorities and higher taxes on big companies and capital problem is that when people feel insecure they tend to get more conservative ( as in changes to the brain research has shown) this means that the harder times become the harder it is to push through effective policies.
@@lukazupie7220 Really depends. Right now, nothing makes housing more expensive than companies that buy/build for rental, so progressive policies that makes it harder for companies to buy up housing and easier for individual would be really good. Other progressive policies like open borders and mass imigration on the other hand, are extremely damaging.
Most politicians refuse to do something about it. The housing crisis isn't a natural disaster outside of human control. It's deliberately manufactured by mass immigration and incentivised through a perverse taxation system.
As a kiwi I would like to point out a few things 1. National ignored and underplayed alot of issue that New Zealand had between 2008-2017 and Labour recognised a lot of the issues. E.g If you lived in a car, garage or tent then according to National you weren’t homeless or in poverty. 2. Between 2017-2020 she was in coalition with New Zealand First (NZF) who brought a lot of experience to the table and a lot of labours achievements between 2020-2023 were NZF policies that were implemented. They were successful because they were realistic (defence replacements, provincial growth funding, foreign affairs reset ect) 3. Motels were used due to the COVID crisis and the border closure. Tourism was gutted and lots of tourist heavy towns were teething on bankruptcy and housing homeless people in motels was essentially a bailout of the tourism industry in all but name. 4. Internationally - she is loved. She’s been compared to Obama - loved overseas, disliked at home. 5. A really good article from VUW talked about the hatred that she went through and discussed that Jacinda was THE minister of ministers - she was front and centre for everything and when you make yourself the magnet for positivity and praise, you also, like it or not, intentionally or unintentionally, make yourself the magnet for hatred even if you move away from the podium and push another minister up there when things take a turn. 6. Between 2017-2020 she had her coalition partner and the Greens in a supply and confidence agreement who she could level blame on whenever something got put on hold or stopped (like capital gains tax) so when she won a outright majority in 2020 - lots of people expected big things to happen because she no longer had a coalition partner or supply and confidence partner to run things by or negotiate with. A lot of the things that were “stopped” due to “disagreements with our coalition partner” weren’t implemented and still haven’t been. 7. Recent policies in New Zealand - such as Three Waters - have been heavily criticised due to them being mandatory and the decision to make them mandatory was made BEFORE consultation was done - in other words - this is what’s going to happen, we’ve already made the choice, it’s not going to change, but we want to hear your thoughts. That type of attitude INSTANTLY makes your opponents think that the only way to be heard is to become a agitator.
Without really knowing much about her internal policy successes/failures I do kinda respect a politician who knows when to walk away. That instead of fighting a probably pretty brutal campaign to stay in power they realize it's better to step away both for them, their party and the country.
This is naivety. This is not out of the goodness of her heart but this is to save the party’s chances of winning elections. This is because governments in Westminster parliamentary systems and and similar systems forces these behaviours.
I'm from Holland and our PM has seen the writing on the wall for 8 years yet he's still here having survived multiple political crises including lying to parliament, lying about lying, hiding evidence, obstruction of justice, refusing to hand over documents that legally should be handed over to members of parliament or journalists, even after being compelled to do so by a judge. And I wouldnt be surprised if he tries another time. 15 years ago we laughed about Berlusconi out here but now we've become that.
@@daarom3472 Yeah, it's unfortunate that this is becoming more and more common for career politicians. Hanging on to power way past the time they should have stepped away and in doing so poisoning the political landscape for years if not decades to come.
The premise of this video is weird because Ardern was still ahead in the polls when it came to the preferred Prime Minister, so her personal ratings were actually pretty good, whereas the issue was more with how Labour in general were doing poorly and have been trailing the Nationals for the past year.
It's typically unusual for an incumbent PM to be trailing an Opp Leader in the preferred PM stakes. There seems to be a psychological barrier in the electorate around imagining the Opp Leader as PM. The polls for the parties are generally a better barometer for the popularity of a govt/PM.
Anyone who's in love with a politician a) doesn't know what love is b) doesn't know the nature of politicians or c) is incredibly naive or stupid or d) all of the above
If you love anyone you’ve never met irl period this also applies. A lot of commenters here who are fawning over her 100% ain’t even from New Zealand 💀💀
See, I'm not sure I agree entirely. People were "in love" with Jacinda because she was personable and relatable. It's okay to love a politician while also being critical on policy. And also not obsessing over our politicians like celebrities.
There is a housing and homelessness crisis all over the world, it's become horrific in the U.S. Is that occurring in NZ because of Arden's policies or is it things bigger going on, like the pandemic, the world economy, increased violence?
A bit of both tbh, where opposing parties criticized the ardern government the most though was her bold promises at the beginning of her term regarding the kiwibuild housing scheme....which was a big flop with the government pumping exorbitant amounts of money elsewhere in the economy. Was quite hypocritical, on top of a few topics touched on in this video..as well as what hasn't been mentioned. 😀
While there is a worldwide issue, I'm not surprised to hear it's so much worse in New Zealand. The geography is already limited, and a lot of the largest sections of New Zealand's economy rely on making that already little land pretty low density. Sad to hear that the government has apparently done so little to address it though.
Years ago national sold a lot of homes and put the rents up to market rent people moved out of state homes that were poorly cared for and moved into private rentals, private landlords upped the price of rents as houses became harder to get and then national sold even more houses as well as letting a lot of foreigners in to NZ which then caused a shortage of houses, Jacinda has been building thousands of houses to help the lower income families have a home, when rents are $600 to $700 a week for a standard 3 bedroom house people just can not afford it so live in cars until a government house becomes available. The rich see this as Jacindas fault but in reality it's the rich greedy home owners charging excessive rents.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 What a hilarious take! Yes, we have democracy in New Zealand. If fact due to our mixed member parliament system, our government is much more representative of our population than other countries.
I lived in Sydney in the 80s and there were many New Zealanders who came to Sydney because they couldn't find a job or afford a place to live. This hasn't changed much.
@@denskiz1 How do you know? You don’t even live here 🤣 You were probably one of the supposed “1 million kiwis” trying to get home during the pandemic because other countries made such a balls up of their pandemic responses 🤣
Pretty much, NZ is beautiful, I wouldnt have left if the oppotunities were soo little, Australia was much easier, no offense to Australians, but the most mediocre Kiwi has better work ethic and education than the average Australian. It was very easy to land a job in my field and buy a house, I felt like a big fish in a little pond here, compared to NZ where only the big fish got the opportunities, I felt so insignificant
I’d also argue their connections with China are a major issue that is infrequently addressed. When I traveled there in 2019 some locals were telling me about all of their exports going to china. China nearly dominates their industries and receives a huge portion of their exports. They are extremely dependent on China.
@@kutie216they should have stopped foreigners from buying up land and housing a long time ago. It is criminal what is happening with the housing market.
Head of the most incompetent government I saw in my long life. Ardern evidently knew nothing of life, she was just an actress playing a part and that is why it ended as it did. Just look at her CV to understand the problem.
I know!!! After all she was amazing as minister of children,did wonders for the homeless,child poverty,education is outstanding,built a few houses,amazing against crime and criminals,really has made it a great and safe place to live and run a business,the economy is top notch...and who can forget how magic she was as minister of fluffiness in every other country of the world
@@nigelralphmurphy2852 why? Her approval rating was less than 30% when she left. I think the numbers speak for themselves. Even Trump was more popular than she was.
When the big protests happened in Wellington on Parliment grounds, Jacinda didn't have the nerve to speak to them or engage them in dialogue, instead she waited for the police to kick them all out
Genuinely surprised by the fact that her leadership and time as prime minister is actually tact as faulty. Coming from an outsider who's country leader stepped down after regaining confidence during his second time as prime minister, his incompetent successor that nearly bankrupt the country (and still recovering from), his successor after being an absolute joke, and now a diminished hope for an elected leader who all believed was our answer forward. Though, as an outsider, I had not kept a close eye to NZ sadly. To learn this is quite disheartening really.
she pays journalists a "public journalism" fund, millions of dollars to media that would otherwise go under due to their lack of objective journalistic integrity. In return they only write nice things about her and never mention her many awful failings.
Don't listen to the haters of Jacinda, unfortunately there was a lot of far right extremists from Amercia pushing their agenda and idiots fall for it. She will go down as one of our best Prime Ministers ever.
Ardern chose to attribute privileges based on ethnicity and gender at the cost of the majority of New Zealanders. She was all about wokeness, not about fairness. That’s why she was removed from the leadership of the country.
The only policy Farmers can point to is the "proposed" (ie not implemented) regulation on Farming emissions. And for that, they'll play victim non-stop. Its infuriating.
The only government the NZ farming industry will ever be happy with is one that allows for perpetual and unlimited environmental degradation. This has been proven over and over again.
Anything towards farmers is a threat to the food we put on our plates. We do not want farming run by government. And that’s exactly the plan they have. Tighten the belt on farmers till they collapse.
I’m not from NZ, but these moves against farmers under the guise of saving the planet have been happening in pretty much all developed countries and it’s ridiculous. It’s always a move to push the public off of meat, consolidate control of the food supply, or both. Before talk of these types of measures started, emissions in these countries were already in a severe negative slope. It’s progress for the sake of progress with the potential for nefarious intentions along the way
There are a lot of factors that go amiss here. One that I learned coming out of the pandemic was from an older colleague, I was explaining to him that I was considering growing my business in NZ or moving overseas to which he replied - "I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter - leave. Roger Douglas installed his economic system in 1980 and the country never recovered." From there I did a bit more research and realized the country has been broken since neoliberalism, all the pandemic did was unmask the issues. Ardern and Labour have done a good enough job of holding the country together, but sadly the problems stem way back and won't be resolved under National leadership.
@@sylviaspandow-tassi5644 every politician has an agenda. Jacindas has been scrutinised more than most because of the pandemic and tall poppy syndrome, And possibly because she’s a woman. However if You do the research you’ll realise the country was broken well before she came on the scene.
The neoliberal reforms of rogernomics were seen as painful but necessary measures. Some of the reforms such as removing farm subsidies, while painful, benefitted us in the long term. Labor had inherited a huge debt and rampant inflation from the Muldoon government, so It was going to suck either way. If rogernomics was the tip, the subsequent Jim Bolger government was the shaft of the proverbial neo-liberal dildo. Every post middle aged person I talk to gives me a wildly different opinion on those times. Some say it was the ultimate savior of the country, others say we got royally fucked.
@@DinoPimp Ha ha, some great analogies there. Im sure you're right the subtle nuances of the insertion should be discussed and would take longer than what's available here - The main thing I'm aware of with ol' mate Roger was the dismantling of the social safety nets that were holding the country together, along with the disinvestment in infrastructure. (don't forget in 1900 Auckland was the leading public transport city in the world). And the main point I'm interested to stress here is - It's not Jacinda's fault. All of this has been going on for decades. People are just looking for a scapegoat. For myself, I took that colleague's suggestion and moved last August to Melbourne and it has highlighted to me what a healthy functional society looks like.
Douglas installed a pro-business system at the expense of everything else. So it could be a good place to grow a business depending on how outward looking it is. If anything broke during those reforms it was a collective nationwide spirit. Afterwards, everything became looking out for yourself instead of considering we are a 'we'.
No she didn't. If she did, she wouldn't have passed the foreign investment bill restricting how much property overseas buyers can sell. It was National who brought that back in, and entrenched it in law so now our country doesn't even have he right to restrict them anymore. Look it it up, it's not like there was a lack of people explaining it to you during the election.
The number one thing that makes me upset is jacinda adren promises things then completely failed let's end homeless and fix the housing crisis then she doubled the refugee quota to 1500 a year while the government is spending one million a day on emergency housing that's 365 million dollars a year new Zealand has gone backwards not forwards
@@PeachesiceT Yeah you'll make a fine US colony. The Imperialists are foaming at the mouth at taking over the anglosphere. But you are sound asleep. Trust me our conservatives are not.
As an outsider commentator, how can you comment on our political situation purely based off speculation or by forming a naive opinion based on news-edited/biased news? Jacinda is not well-liked like how many international news outlets liked to portray her as. Yes, she is well-spoken, however behind that kind, motherly facade issues have been piling up, and only people living in NZ will truly understand the situation.
Her hospital pass to Hipkins , and then subbing herself off was textbook. “OMG they hate me and now the party as well. I’ll give it all to Hipkins and get the hell out of here before it all falls apart. “
It’s amazing how so many foreigners will admire a country’s leader, when that country’s citizens will think that are so-so or not great at all. Trudeau being another one…
@@iceman18211 just dont ask him to add small numbers, he cant do math, plus dont expect him to hold any ethical standards, plus he loves to give our money to his friends, and he cant really do much with his handlers like feed himself.
I left NZ in the late 90's. Although I had always been a good earner, it had become impossible for a single person to buy even the most modest of houses. What ten years before sold for 50,000 NZD was now up for sale at 200,000 NZD. There was no accounting for it, apart from pure greed on the part of property speculators but inflation was starting to rear it's ugly head already. Nowadays, people find it hard to feed their families. Nobody slept in their cars in the 90's. There simply weren't homeless people. Renting wasn't difficult and the welfare system wasn't the hateful mess it is now. Now as I look at the state of affairs in that country, I'm satisfied that my decision to leave permanently was the right one. I doubt that the mess is all Adhern's fault, as the rot set in 20 years ago, but she didn't deliver on any of her promises. All talk and no substance.
@@saramshagorkhali101 This is Canada as well !! Canada accepted 450k immigrants this year to give you a perspective, and Toronto housing market exploded in last 10 years.
@@jaredoelderink-wale350 Tamaki couldnt make money off his sermons so he became a conspiracy nut and started charging for his events. Whos really the sheep here
@@jaredoelderink-wale350 "the real truth" lmao do you realize how stupid you sound? You mean the "truth" that aligns with your particular world view, begotten from years of brainwashing in he midst of your tiny little echo chamber. Stop being a sheep. No one side holds the absolute truth. Everyone is questionable and can be criticized. Learn nuance
I have one question to people who live in high cost-of-living areas like NZ and CA: Why are you willing to pay so much in taxes if you don't see that return in your quality of life? The whole point of pooling funds to redistribute them is that it should be easier for you to live, not harder.
You're not wrong, but that's assuming that there are good viable alternatives in their political system. Replacing con artists with con artists (sorry for the pessimism 😄 )
I agree, it is expensive to live here. My step dad always used to say, 'It's expensive to live in Paradise'. I've done a little bit of travelling, and whilst I am very biased, there's literally no where like Aotearoa. Sure, we have problems, every single country does, but you will not live a better life anywhere else in the world, and most New Zealanders fail to recognise how goddamm lucky we are to have what we have
Living in CA I like that our state came together to get rid of mosquitos with my tax dollars. The roads are also of top-notch quality. I get a quite high salary, and while the taxes are high, they’re not as high as you may think. I actually paid more on taxes in Texas bc the property taxes there are crushing. Plus, California is just so beautiful. I got bored after a few weeks in Houston since there’s just not anything to do, no hiking trails nearby. San Fran has so many, and nice ones too. So, I guess you pay for what you get 🤷♂️
I think I can safely say the majority, or close to, of Wellingtonians never went off her. Lots of regional people and small business owners have been turned off her, but she still has many, many supporters in the capital.
We in Auckland. cant stand her, she put us in continuous lockdowns to the point 30-40% of small business did not survive, people lost their homes, had to rehome pets. We did it the hardest and we voted her in! She NEVER visited the victims of the Sandringham ram raids and murder - HER own electorate! She dug her own grave. She killed what Auckland use to be and it is so sad.
@@louisavondart9178 and were you so loving to key when he destroyed the ability to own a house and the crime rate was just as bad but hypocritical national voters always blame labour and have never been good at self-reflection
Back on track now, the Labour regime is well and truly gone. And by the way Ardern wasn't elected in '17, she as a PM was a huge mistake by Winston Peters unfortunately and all NZers have paid for that dearly.
@@caad5258 Yes indeed!! The worlds biggest tyrants have stepped down right when their 5 year old child is starting their first days at school. THE TYRANNY OF IT ALL!!!
Its all a farce. We’ve had a conservative economy for generations we got enough money in the coffers to last us through any storm like we did in covid. Theres a big snatch going on and the parties are all in on it
I'm a New Zealander that despised Ardern and everything she stood for. She had no real world skills or knowledge and was completely out of her depth. That didn't stop the endless gas lighting, though.
New Zealanders are pretty tolerant people and believe in giving others a chance. If things dont go to plan, its usually ok that didnt go to well lets fix it up. The patience and tolerance runs out fast when you can see & be affected by stuff ups, things going backwards along with a whole hidden agenda of policy/projects never mentioned or hinted when running for election. Every family in NZ has been affect by "her Labour Govt" policies and not for the better - from the inferior fuel we now import, the mandate issue, our health and education systems..... facts speak for them selves & more are affected by it.
She didn't decide to close marsden, the bloody wealthy shareholders did "On August 6, 2021, Refining NZ shareholders voted to stop refining and for Marsden Point to become an import terminal, with the loss of 240 jobs". Thats the problem with this whole bullshit article isnt it? A loud vocal minority blaming the government for everything while simtuainlsly being iggnorant to the information or facts on the issues. Its almost like half of New Zealand likes to whine a lot isn't it?
@@New_Zealand_ I think NZ has become unpleasant because we're in a global cost of living crisis! Rather than anything related to the government babe. People are divided and angry because that is what the times are like, nothing to do with Jacinda. It's social media. These radical changes were signalled years ago when the labour party comissoned working groups regarding them. and they're good for the most part I can totally expect Lange doing something like this, he did when he destroyed our welfare state
@@New_Zealand_ people have never been so divided and angry...I mean have you never heard of the Springbok Tour? The Foreshaw Issue under Helen Clark? The selling off of national industries by the fourth labour government and how voters were so angry they creater "NewLabour"? Jacinda is polarising but I definetly agree with the previous commenter; global crisis makes domestic problems worse.
I know next to nothing about politics in NZ but I can tell you that the crisis you’re experiencing is the same in the uk and many other countries. Corporate interests rule and they continue to record huge profits while the rest of us struggle to survive. What role politicians play in this is open to debate I guess.
As a Kiwi and someone who adored her to an extent. Dealing with Covid19, white island and the Terror attack I am proud of her. The farmers export their produce first and formost. They still make money but New Zealanders pay more for produce. Farmers are not looking after the country and have destroyed most of our rivers, now un swimmable, fishable or usable. Housing is a world wide problem (the critics here need to get out more to learn more). NZ went well through COVID not due to COVID but due to the measures she took. The country should be greatful. Sexist NZ is the old NZ. Yes, we led the way with a lot but we did the opposite too. She helped us get our Maori language, values and traditions back as a focus for ongoing development. This I love. But... World wide there is right now masisve racist agendas that no one is doing anything about. It is fasionable for the times to be racist against white races. It is taught in our schools in NZ that whites must take a back step and kids can be bullied for being white (regardless if the child is a light skinned Maori, I am alsoa light skinned Maori, my wife dark skinned. our kids mixed.). *this is a world wide problem. eg. the USA right now has anti slavery pushed while there are more slaves in Africa owned by blacks today than ever were taken by non blacks to the USA. Correct me if I am wrong :). This is a whole new topic which needs addressed because of the current modern slavery in Aisa and Africa that florishes because the world is focussed on fashionable agendas. Not to mention that whites were once slaves (much larger scale not too long earlier- but lets not bring up the past... where did the world slave come from... Slav, Slavic ????)It is a world wide fashion from the USA that has spread. Yes the USA has about 80% whites (I am guessing) but the world itself is 60% Aisan. Add in latinos (depending if it is positive or negative where the world classifies latinos as white or brown). Add in Middle East, then Africa and you realize whites are a minority. Bubble just popped right? But lets not talk about it as it goes against the fashion of the times today. I have a son and a daughter. I want my daughter to have the same oppertunities as my son and vice versa. But I do nit want her to get a job because she is a girl or him to miss out because he is a male. All big bussinesses are doing this today and Jacinda supported it. The pay gap mis based on work not gender! We are fools to just look at bank accounts. The LGBTQ+ community should not be a community. It should be within us all. We have created an external community and in the future will cause havoc for them. Equality is equility. Like John Lennons song Imagine. This is what we need! The lyrics are the guide to solving everything world wide. Now I am on a rant. I love Jacnda. I have also tavelled, I speak other languages and have been other places. I am a proud New Zealander, Maori, Caucasian (Scottish desent) and proud Muslim man. I do not disklie the LGBTQ+ however I do dislike the pornography some of the community promotes in public. New Zealand is hurt. The world is hurt. We fight over stupid topics and miss the oppertunities to grow togther. Sorry for the Rant. Jacinda was trying to do the right thing. Vice, you interviewed a farmer who comes from a trade that has destroyed our country and lined their own pockets. Not the best candidte for advice. Jacinda tried but the world is messed up with race, gender and life. I love and admire her but she never had the stregnth to stand up and recognize that too far in any direction is wrong!
add to that, when covid was new it was damn scary, hundreds of thousands were dying all around the world with hot spots changing. The 1st variant went unchallenged by medicine as vaccines were still being hurriedly developed and then the 2nd variant arrived posing an even more deadly potential. There became a strong focus by the Labour Govt to minimise our risk by using all the methods that were implemented while monitoring the population vaccination percentage to hold off relaxing restraints until a certain degree of risk to life could be best protected. All the while providing extremely expensive financial support to so many, people came before money. It can never be known just how many lives were saved by these actions but it has been estimated in the thousands, so maybe me or someone in my family, or you or someone in your family is still alive today because of the actions taken by the Jacinda led Labour Govt. That to me is a huge huge debt of thanks owed by all of us.
yeh, "balanced" but not a lot of analysis. doesn't seem you can discuss the perception of her in New Zealand without connecting to the larger state of political polarization. she was merely a lightning rod for that difference. outside of that, and unique with respect to her, was her personalistic manner. discussion of that and its potential to "cross the political divide" may have been a good focus for a story about her
What love empathy and kindness did Ardern have for the peaceful parliament protesters that she slandered and had beaten and abused by the bully cops she rewarded
@@avpr1574 as with Albo and Trudeau, I call them "fake left". They ride the rainbow painted identity politics gravy train while allowing every plutocratic corporate interest that is only interested in economic rent to gut the working and middle classes. Good riddance Jacinda!
-Leader says it actually wants to help. -People are happy, and get unrealistic expectations. -Unrealistic expectations could not be met. -People are angry and awaiting next savior God. -New leader says it actually wants to help.
These homeless crisis is west is war on white people.. they invite rich immigrants, refugees in large numbers without building new housing infrastructure.. We all know how this ends....
Unfortunately showing will always be more important than doing in Politics. Everyone kept saying "she cared about people" but that doesn't really mean much without actions to back it up. I am not saying I agree or disagree with the views expressed on the video, which by the way felt kind of superficial and one-sided.
Like their gang numbers claim, or 80% of kids failed school, or so. many. others. Although I'm not sure if it counts as ironic that one of the things they did when National got in was kid kids out of emergency housing then refuse to count how many they made homeless. Oh, and hungry and now they've stopped food for kids in school
I would fucking love for the politicians of my country (Poland) to step down when they are no longer supported. It would be a dream come true! It’s not like that most of the times. Politicians try to hold to power as long as they can, not making any change or growth, just holding the power for themselves. I envy New Zealand people at power like her.
No chance , he is anti Russia and he got all support for American military industrial complex to continue the anti Russia policy. No regime change happening in Poland, no need to say about how media world in Poland.
Farmers will never, ever vote for Labour - no matter what their policies. Farming and rural communities are safe National regions / seats, but sometimes these folk have their head in the clouds, about the need to clean up their act and impact on the environment (particularly waterways.) It does however remain that Ardern lost control of the narrative around some of her policies, but in fairness was dealing with a pretty challenge in COVID at the time. NZ remains one of the lower countries for inflation in OECD, despite the rhetoric....
I feel like this could've been a longer video and more in-depth. It sort of gives a brief overview of what's happening and a couple reasons why, but I think the "why" part could be further elaborated on.
michael wood said shed be remembered as someone with immense empathy, ask every new zealander who lost their job and was deemed a second class citizen by Ardern if they feel the same way
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous grants to medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations for the purpose of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported. By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
The problem is that many in NZ are very much still in love with her. Did her popularity take a hit in the aftermath of covid? Yes, but it was already high and as preferred PM she still polled top. The issue is that her party took a significant hit almost certainly because of the same thing. Those headwinds combined with the stressors compounding because of what happened in the job probably led her to make the choice to seek more accommodating employment. Too bad she didn't put her notice in sooner but then again it's not as if we wouldn't have just got another stooge who would've toed the same line.
no she wasn't she was falling like a lead balloon. and there will be an inquiry into her handling of a certain pan demic. she saw this coming. then again she bought/gagged the media with an order by a dirty defence attorney in the case of her coke-snorting bed partner clark. once that comes out and it is being worked on, she will be toast as far as her reputation is concerned. hence the tears at leaving office. sorry for herself.
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your channel was complicit in the tyranny and non-science science. Shame on Vice
well. shes a monster. _JC
We never loved her. The west just think we do because of headlines
The truth is NZ is still in love with Jacinda. One of the best leaders we have ever had. This video is a load of contrived BS, put together for the purposes of some right wing agenda.
I’m American, and I’m shocked that politicians in other countries step down when the people don’t want them anymore.
In NZ's election system, quitting at this point in the cycle is kind of the equivalent of saying you won't run for re-election in other systems.
@@takatamiyagawa5688 She was constantly getting abused and harrassed by anti vaxxers, not to mention death threats, had she stayed she would of won again but anti vaxxers would of protested and rioted, she stepped down to avoid the ugliness
@@frenchskuxx well lets stop looking at the extreme haha how about crime rates flying up, tax rates flying up, education went down as did jobs. She was terrible as government.
@@frenchskuxx have you seen the polls? she took the only lifeboat from a sinking ship
dont be mistaken, shes not doing this out of kindness, she taking the only lifeboat on a ship she sunk
What I've been telling non-Kiwis who are shocked at Ardern's resignation is that NZ domestic political issues simply don't make the news overseas, so what people know about Jacinda Ardern is basically the highlights reel (being elected, having a baby in office, eliminating covid, etc.) Little is known internationally about the housing crisis, cost of living, or how Labour has struggled to pivot away from lofty issues like co-governance and state media mergers towards the bread-and-butter economic issues that your average person is most concerned about. Her government just hasn't been able to articulate well enough why these issues matter at a time when people are struggling to afford the basic necessities.
She has been an incredible crisis leader and has been willing to make tough decisions where needed. But constant disruption throughout these past six years has made it difficult for her govt. to grasp governing during 'normal times'. The fact is, the transformational politics she promised simply didn't eventuate.
Couldn’t have worded it better myself
As a non-Kiwi, expecting her to fix the housing crisis, which is usually a decades old issue, is maybe having unrealistic expectations - you can end up with a government that is generally worse because you got rid of somebody who cared about you.
@@aliancemd nah. All housing crisis everywhere is easy to solve. A single land Value tax solves this. Especially if paired with universal basic income
@@kightsun for LVTs to be successful you effectively need to eliminate property taxes, so the government isn’t going to be increasing net revenue, pair that with UBI, and you are looking at a massive budget deficit.
“Easy” is a huge, naive overstatement
@@williamjohnson4417 lvt is a property tax. It would replace all taxes. Decrease spending to match income, it really is easy.
Asking a Farmer what he thinks of a Labour leader is a bit like asking a Yorkshire miner what he thought of Margaret Thatcher.
Except Yorkshire miners are poor, working class - NZ farmers are rich, privileged land owners.
Because of we had to leave the country, she destroyed the whole countries economy. The damage have already been done by her. I don't think many who have left NZ would return again.
From giving shelter to people linked with isis to unemployment, crime and homelessness this can't be undone.
@@On_The_Piss and they act like they're the most oppressed class, it's quite pathetic
Why did I read this with Jeremy Clarksons Voice lol
@@MaverickZ007 TONIGHT ON BOTTOM GEAR
A clear parallel could be drawn between Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau up here in Canada. Unaffordable housing, high inflation, identity politics, increased poverty and personal debt and a “green ‘ policy that’s forcing small farms out of business and into the hands of corporate farming.
Similar though there is no way he will resign, being a dictator is in his blood. They are both graduates of Klaus's school of puppetry.
Housing Crisis in New Zealand started well before Ardern it actually started during John Key, Ardern said she would build 100,000 houses during her term and she only built 10,000 (which is a big accomplishment; but don't get elected saying you'll do 100% then just do 10%).
Both are highly ideological in outlook and authoritarian in execution. Both are virtual signallers par excellence and have little depth of character.
Add Sana Marin of Finland and Annalena of Germany to that list.
no one can stop corporate farming, and no one will.
As a New Zealander, a couple of interesting observations from this video.
The farming community in New Zealand has a strong level of political power in New Zealand. While the farmer is outraged about how much Wellington 'dictates' what they have to do, the solution for taxing emissions was a considerable watering down of what was proposed two years ago, and not enough to meet New Zealand's climate targets.
Chris Bishop, opposition spokesperson for the National Party, is incredibly hypocritical given, up until the month of the 2017 election when they lost power to Ardern, they refused to acknowledge New Zealand had a housing crisis. The Ardern government hasn't done enough for this crisis, but the National Party should not be allowed to place the blame completely on this government.
Ultimately, her stepping down is the right choice. I think people were tiring of her, but I have also noticed that people are tiring of the Opposition leader. I think New Zealanders will be exhausted and pretty uninspired by the time the October election comes.
I fucking hate farmers. They'll play the victim over anything. If they don't like being dictated to by Wellington, well maybe they shouldn't be flooding our rivers with effluent.
Agreed. Luxon appears to have failed to resonate with most New Zealanders.
Fully agree.
sounds like new zealand needs someone new
A lot of political unwillingness to really push a lot of meaningful policy, as well as hesitance and poor communication over cannabis legalisation and co-governance that got way out of hand once the opposition started fear-mongering about all of it didn't help. Overall a good leader, certainly a whole lot better than the last lot, but definitely lacking in some areas.
Never fall in love with a politician or football team. They will just break your heart.
Trust me, I can relate; I’m a lifelong fan of the Dallas Cowboys here in America.
@@gbb82 It could be worse, ask a Detroit Lions fan.
every once in a while they’ll surprise you..
-Chiefs Fan
@@gbb82 dude whatever happened to the Cowboys?..they not hitting like they used to
Let's also add a cricket team....
As a Kiwi, I found this to be a very Interesting video.
I recently left NZ and have moved to Australia like many people within my age group (20-40). I would say that the housing market was one of the biggest driving factors in my decision, yet I would absolutely be lying if I said this was entirely Labour or Jacinda's fault. We have a national problem that's existed for over a decade, and was worsened by the National government.
We have a tax law that incentivizes individuals to invest in property over every other form of investment. This is not Jacinda's fault. Even if politicians were to start taxing property like they taxed income or other investments, like stocks or bonds, it would likely trigger an economic nightmare for at least a decade, and this is why no-ones willing to tackle the problem.
But without actually tackling the problem head on like we should, we're going to instead lose out on our young adults and innovative thinkers to countries like Australia or abroad. These are often the people that create diverse businesses, innovative businesses, and help to keep NZ economically and socially diverse.
This cycle of 20-40 year olds leaving NZ and returning once they're ready to 'settle down' won't ever stop, until we do something about property.
Jacinda led us through some very severe storms, and while she definitely made mistakes, I think she'll ultimately be remembered as the kind PM we needed at the time where the world felt like it was falling apart. Laying the housing problem at her feet I think is severely incorrect.
I feel like we have a similar housing market problem in Australia but I guess it would be less intense than NZ's problem due to the obvious geographical differences.
@@Lockieez I just googled a average house price in New Zealand. It's insane! $944,767 as the average house price. You need to be a millionaire to buy a house in NZ. That's crazy!
A average salary in NZ is $39079. American dollars btw. That would definitely leave people homeless. You're homeless on a average salary.
To compare that to the Netherlands where we also have a huge housing crisis. A average house costs $415294 and the average salary is $41315. You can't even get a mortgage with half the house prices here.
How the hell do you buy a house when you need a mortgage on at least $700000?
Awesome comment! So balanced and fair. I thought the comments here would likely be polarised and negative, but instead I'm very grateful for thoughtful, evidence based and balanced comments. Thank you!
@@Lockieez I have recently moved to Perth from NZ and everybody here talks about how much housing has gone up and how expensive fuel is.
I have just come from $2.50/L gas and $1,000,000 for a 2 bed 1 bath leaky brick house. Everywhere is feeling the inflation of housing but it feels like NZ is front running Aus by a long shot
Jacinda did fail to get a Capital Gains Tax through though after announcing they would be pushing for one. Maybe not her fault, but a failure nonetheless
She didn't turn down your request because she is shy of the international news media, she turned it down because she was about to be welcomed onto a very significant site in Māoridom and it was entirely inappropriate for you to have been asking to interview her when this was taking place.
Agreed!
how in the hell is that inappropriate of him?
@@mherrj Its like seeing a celebrity eating at a restaurant, then going over and interrupting their dinner to ask for a photo
@@mherrj when someone is in the middle of a very culturally important ritual or ceremony its rude to interrupt them for something like an "interview". i think you can understand it if you picture how annoying the papparazi can be and then extrapolate it to to a situation involving an important social gathering.
@@callanc3925 I think you're actually underselling it by comparing it to a celebrity eating at restaurant. As wrong as that situation is, I'm sure it doesn't compare to the cultural significance of what she was doing.
Before Arden NewZealand always had a housing problem that nobody talked about!!!! I live in Fiji and family in NZ always complained about high rent and housing issues way before 2017. Great journalism but dig deeper past Ms. Arden
But wasn’t she voted in on the promise her party were supposed to “ fix” it? 🤷♂️
I wanted to move to NZ (I'm from the US) but it would be cheaper to move to Beverly Hills, lol. That was over 10 yr ago. Same story with AU now. Now our housing market looks like yours thanks to speculation by investors.
Yea sure but she promised to fix it then did nothing about it
It's worse now, so is child poverty since she governed.
She campaigned on both of those things
@@thrusta100 you say that as if you feel she had a free run to do so
Indeed, labour has failed to tackle the housing crisis. They deserve criticism for not taking more aggressive action in terms of getting high density housing built.
National however ignored the housing crisis for the 8 years before Jacinda took power. They would be the last people I would trust to address it.
You ain't the only one.
The last National Govt were in power for 10yrs they knew we had a housing problem and did
absolutely nothing about it at least this Govt was making an attempt.
There was no "housing crisis" under national yes home owners rates went up and the market went stale but rentals weren't affected like they are now. And the only thing labour did was make it so much harder to get a rental
Indian and Pakistanis planning to migrate to bring all family member from grand old dad to all siblings to NZ.. but still manage to survive.
@@chriscomics9415 Where have you been living? Rents started hiking and housing became unaffordable right through National's leadership. I bet you've forgotten but it was National who started putting people in motels. The irony was the minister responsible owned 80 plus rental homes!
You can admire a political figure without liking them. Never disliked Jacinda myself but I admire that she clocked out when she realised she gave her all to the office. Unlike Berlusconi figures that just won't.go.awaaaaay
You admire her for walking away? After destroying the country…. What a clown take
@@JM-qn3tfdestroying the country? Bro be grateful National wasn’t in power during Covid they would’ve just gave a $100 paknsave voucher and called it a day. Labour doesn’t deserve the hate they get after all they’ve done for the people the rough few years esp during Covid. The financial trouble we’re experiencing is happening everywhere not just NZ.
@@JM-qn3tf would you rather she continue to 'destroy' the country?
@@lyoona8951 I don’t admire her genius
Shes gon thank fk
I think New Zealand is facing issues that a lot of countries are facing - consequences of housing speculation - climate change - global economic issues - cost of living - the aftermath of the covid (not that its really over). All of these issues have no easy solutions and any solution will have losers. I don't envy the politicians who want to be pragmatic and risk their popularity to push policy through to really address these things. People will only look at the top - to pin their hopes but also their anger.
Climate change? 🤡🤡🤡🤡
The climate is always changing so you better prepare. The problem is that we blame something called C02 that has not been proving to be the cause of it, only that there is a correlation between temperature and C02.
Also we can only eliminate C02 if we start living in caves again. The issue is that we spend trillions trying to eliminate C02 usage instead of spending 1% of it to make us adapt to the change.
Also covid is not causing financial issues. If they would have closed the liquor stores and stopped selling sodas, sugar and fatty foods like Mc donnalds and cookies, they would have saves way more lives and money then with all the chamical injections and lock downs.
Only old and fat people died WITH a positive covid test. Anyone else with a positive test had no problem.
I think that a lot of people start to see this now and therfore Adern lost credibility because she know the facts but tried to hide them by paying huge amount of money to the media.
Jacinda as PM was a joke, she couldn't run a bath! Failed at everything she touched, printed money and spent it lie there was no tomorrow and then when she realised that she had failed she ran off.
@Cha4k lol no. Housing is plentiful, but rents and home prices are high, while wages have remained relatively stagnant.. Thats not an immigration problem.
@@Cha4k Immigrants (or at least new immigrants) compose a very minor portion of housing in NZ. The larger issue is with a lack of new housing supply and with some homeowners owning more than their fair share of property - hogging up the supply of housing.
So basically, her fall resembles that of any politician who made promises that couldn't be kept, whether through their own doing or by external forces.
Which is basically every politician.
i wonder how long it'll be before this trend of heads of state stepping down before their term is up spreads to the usa. i think the last president we had step down was nixon.
@@vanessa_lmao8219 so basically any political leader in any given time period
That's not fully what happened here. It's not that she wasn't quite able to live up to her promises. It was that people here were absolutely sick of the ego-serving spin-doctoring modus operandi of her government. It wasn't just a little shortfall, it was an almost complete contradiction of what they say versus what they do. There was that unsettling feeling that it was always about her, her image, and the party's image first, and the people a distant second. She allowed & played into this narrative of her being "compassionate", while at the same time following her personally stated goal of passing laws to allow the brutal sadistic killing of as many babies as possible - some of the most extreme laws in the world (being allowed to kill them right up to the second before they are born, being allowed to kill them based on preference for gender, or any minor deformity or perceived disability - basically eugenics) and Jacinda personally voting against the babies receiving anesthetic before they are brutally ripped apart alive. Tens of thousands of them. Then she says the COVID lockdown is "to save lives". She could have saved tens of thousands of lives at no cost, by not pushing to genocide babies. She wouldn't want these horrible things done to herself or anyone she cares about. So she knows it's wrong. That's the opposite of compassionate. That's narcissistic / sociopathic. (Caring only about oneself and gladly causing harm and pain to others)
Jacinda didn't have the ability to run the country from the start!
That had to be the most topical "report" I've ever seen from Vice. Why were problems with the housing market unaddressed or exacerbated? Why were there four to five times as many families living in cars? These are the actual reasons for criticism of her policies. What exactly did she do for foreign policy that was unique to her? What part of foreign policy did she improve that another leader could not? These are reasons that would explain why she has supporters. Basically, this video was just a topical summary of the fact that Mary Poppins is stepping down
lots of new zealanders are lazy and have too much rights. that is why their homeless, depending on their kind government entirely like a parasite
Spot on ! But this is Vice News, you cannot expect actual reporting.
Reason why theres a housing crisis is because alot of foreign investors have bought a majority of NZs assets including wealthy people who have emigrated, especially on the south island. Reason being is because NZ is one of the safest places to live if there were to be a WW3 due to having no physical borders and being isolated from most surrounding countries.
@@overlandecuador4872 blanket judgement
These homeless crisis is west is war on white people.. they invite rich immigrants, refugees in large numbers without building new housing infrastructure..
We all know how this ends....
As someone in th States, I greatly appreciate the insightful comments left on this video from a lot of New Zealanders.
A wealth of important context, which is almost totally absent from this rather shallow coverage.
VICE used to have some good reporting, but it is pretty simplistic & superficial these days. A sad decline. What a shame.
As a Kiwi I agree that it was a one-sided assessment of her local achievements. You would think that the great majority of the population wanted her gone. It didn't seem like that to me. Interviewing a farmer who said she led the worst government in 40 years is just bizarre. The serious pollution in our waterways from not fencing off our waterways from cattle was something that obviously needed to happen, as does doing something about reducing the methane production of cows. To be a sustainable industry money needs to be invested and some farmers did not want to change. Many have. The Labour government did a number of initiatives for poverty and mental health that the opposition parties vigorously opposed at the time, like lifting the minimum wage significantly. Overall a surprising lack of balanced reporting. But she is a visionary and an idealist, and one of the most disciplined politicians we have had, and the new Prime Minister is someone who gets things done, much more pragmatic and much more goofy and likeable. It's likely Labour will win the next election although the floods in the North Island response will be important.
@@gjcoop5625 Thank you for that information. Deeply appreciated.
@@gjcoop5625 Do you still feel it's likely now lol
@@grandmundi7107 No. It's still possible that Labour wins, but Hipkin's over-exposure as Health Minister during the Covid days is hurting him. He has been blamed for high interest rates for mortgages and the cost of petrol and food. The National Party will give themselves an unnecessary tax cut and give a lot of money to rental property owners, that will lead to higher house prices. And cut services. Grim times for those not so well off, but great for those who can afford overseas holidays and buying a beach house.
@@gjcoop5625 National did a number game - there are many more mid-income earners than low income earners, so it deliberately designed the tax cut to give the most amount to those. So yeah, it's harder to attack, because the real rich don't even get the most out of it, and the foreign buyer tax is too complicated to make much difference anyway.
So, basically, the female Justin Trudeau.
Nahh, Shes way better than Trudeau
Lack of affordable housing is a problem that is created over decades and cannot be resolved in a few years for obvious reasons - policy takes time, rezoning takes time, construction takes time. Like most economic policies, the results only become obvious years later when there's someone else in power to take the credit. Also, providing affordable housing affects the supply side, whereas the increase in demand for the housing is a demand-side problem.
LOL
This is so fucking funny because I'm half way around the world in Ireland trying to explain this very same problem we have with our housing crisis.
People can't wrap their head around the fact it is a supply and demand issue. Not just a supply problem.
Canada new policy with oligarch buyers of real estate may help?
The only way you are getting affordable housing is when private property and landlords are abolished. Until then you can keep begging for affordable housing, it ain't coming under capitalism.
Yes but we in NZ are approaching our second decade of acute housing crisis. People's patience only stretches so far
@@Freelythoughtful Exact same here. Even during a housing bust, the supply was limited.
No politician can survive the unrealistically rabid expectations of the voters, too many compromises have to be done between the interests of those came before and those that will come later. At the end of the day we get the leaders that best represent both our best and worst aspects.
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Yeah.. This is totally the voters’ fault. 😂
While that is true not only did she fail at a few things literally every domestic policy she was elected on she never came close to achieving and at the end of the day that’s why she is gone. The amount of money the government has wasted in the last 6 years was unsustainable
She was far left and incompetent . And left quite a mess.
It appears she was more loved in other countries than she was at home.
Very true
The age of misinformation
Only wef
The thug communist came out of her with covid.
@timtan2023hiyffg wrong. She was not going to lose. Who was she going to lose to? Luxon? Your lying buddy
With housing/cost-of-living/inflation issues being so rampant across the wealthy parts of the world, I’m finding it harder to blame a party or a single politician for the situation we’re in. It sounds like none of the politicians know what to do about it. Uh oh…
Actually as a politician myself there are ways to handle it but it demands building state or council housing with controlled rent and in order to do that you need better majorities and higher taxes on big companies and capital problem is that when people feel insecure they tend to get more conservative ( as in changes to the brain research has shown) this means that the harder times become the harder it is to push through effective policies.
@@gaelle4328 "progressive" policies make housing more expensive..
@@lukazupie7220 Really depends. Right now, nothing makes housing more expensive than companies that buy/build for rental, so progressive policies that makes it harder for companies to buy up housing and easier for individual would be really good.
Other progressive policies like open borders and mass imigration on the other hand, are extremely damaging.
Most politicians refuse to do something about it. The housing crisis isn't a natural disaster outside of human control. It's deliberately manufactured by mass immigration and incentivised through a perverse taxation system.
Because it is capitalism
As a kiwi I would like to point out a few things
1. National ignored and underplayed alot of issue that New Zealand had between 2008-2017 and Labour recognised a lot of the issues. E.g If you lived in a car, garage or tent then according to National you weren’t homeless or in poverty.
2. Between 2017-2020 she was in coalition with New Zealand First (NZF) who brought a lot of experience to the table and a lot of labours achievements between 2020-2023 were NZF policies that were implemented. They were successful because they were realistic (defence replacements, provincial growth funding, foreign affairs reset ect)
3. Motels were used due to the COVID crisis and the border closure. Tourism was gutted and lots of tourist heavy towns were teething on bankruptcy and housing homeless people in motels was essentially a bailout of the tourism industry in all but name.
4. Internationally - she is loved. She’s been compared to Obama - loved overseas, disliked at home.
5. A really good article from VUW talked about the hatred that she went through and discussed that Jacinda was THE minister of ministers - she was front and centre for everything and when you make yourself the magnet for positivity and praise, you also, like it or not, intentionally or unintentionally, make yourself the magnet for hatred even if you move away from the podium and push another minister up there when things take a turn.
6. Between 2017-2020 she had her coalition partner and the Greens in a supply and confidence agreement who she could level blame on whenever something got put on hold or stopped (like capital gains tax) so when she won a outright majority in 2020 - lots of people expected big things to happen because she no longer had a coalition partner or supply and confidence partner to run things by or negotiate with. A lot of the things that were “stopped” due to “disagreements with our coalition partner” weren’t implemented and still haven’t been.
7. Recent policies in New Zealand - such as Three Waters - have been heavily criticised due to them being mandatory and the decision to make them mandatory was made BEFORE consultation was done - in other words - this is what’s going to happen, we’ve already made the choice, it’s not going to change, but we want to hear your thoughts. That type of attitude INSTANTLY makes your opponents think that the only way to be heard is to become a agitator.
This was very well written and informative thank you
Don’t agree and comparing her to Obama not a good move he destroyed the US economy
good analysis, also during covid Jacinda secretly enacted the abortion stuff....
Please shill more
Well said.
Without really knowing much about her internal policy successes/failures I do kinda respect a politician who knows when to walk away. That instead of fighting a probably pretty brutal campaign to stay in power they realize it's better to step away both for them, their party and the country.
@@Alejandro-bd6yy I recommend re-reading my comment without having your comprehension coloured by political bias.
This is naivety. This is not out of the goodness of her heart but this is to save the party’s chances of winning elections. This is because governments in Westminster parliamentary systems and and similar systems forces these behaviours.
I'm from Holland and our PM has seen the writing on the wall for 8 years yet he's still here having survived multiple political crises including lying to parliament, lying about lying, hiding evidence, obstruction of justice, refusing to hand over documents that legally should be handed over to members of parliament or journalists, even after being compelled to do so by a judge.
And I wouldnt be surprised if he tries another time. 15 years ago we laughed about Berlusconi out here but now we've become that.
@@cinnabar546 I swear reading comprehension on the internet is at an all time low these days...
@@daarom3472 Yeah, it's unfortunate that this is becoming more and more common for career politicians. Hanging on to power way past the time they should have stepped away and in doing so poisoning the political landscape for years if not decades to come.
The premise of this video is weird because Ardern was still ahead in the polls when it came to the preferred Prime Minister, so her personal ratings were actually pretty good, whereas the issue was more with how Labour in general were doing poorly and have been trailing the Nationals for the past year.
The whole country hates her
She wasn't leading in the polls her rating dropped below twenty before the door kicked her in the butt.
It's typically unusual for an incumbent PM to be trailing an Opp Leader in the preferred PM stakes. There seems to be a psychological barrier in the electorate around imagining the Opp Leader as PM. The polls for the parties are generally a better barometer for the popularity of a govt/PM.
polls are always manipulated - just like the msm
And? She thought she was going to lose, which is why she left. You are one idiot.
She divided NZ, and was proud of it, she was a snake in the grass
Our most despicable P M ever 💩👎
Anyone who's in love with a politician a) doesn't know what love is b) doesn't know the nature of politicians or c) is incredibly naive or stupid or d) all of the above
Ahh man I'm so bad at multiple choices.
If you love anyone you’ve never met irl period this also applies. A lot of commenters here who are fawning over her 100% ain’t even from New Zealand 💀💀
See, I'm not sure I agree entirely. People were "in love" with Jacinda because she was personable and relatable. It's okay to love a politician while also being critical on policy. And also not obsessing over our politicians like celebrities.
A) I wanna know what love is...
B) I want you to show me...
Well said and that's the world over.
There is a housing and homelessness crisis all over the world, it's become horrific in the U.S. Is that occurring in NZ because of Arden's policies or is it things bigger going on, like the pandemic, the world economy, increased violence?
A bit of both tbh, where opposing parties criticized the ardern government the most though was her bold promises at the beginning of her term regarding the kiwibuild housing scheme....which was a big flop with the government pumping exorbitant amounts of money elsewhere in the economy. Was quite hypocritical, on top of a few topics touched on in this video..as well as what hasn't been mentioned. 😀
That doesn’t excuse her not doing anything to help it. She’s a ffing landlord after all. She’s literally profiting off her own inaction.
While there is a worldwide issue, I'm not surprised to hear it's so much worse in New Zealand. The geography is already limited, and a lot of the largest sections of New Zealand's economy rely on making that already little land pretty low density. Sad to hear that the government has apparently done so little to address it though.
Years ago national sold a lot of homes and put the rents up to market rent people moved out of state homes that were poorly cared for and moved into private rentals, private landlords upped the price of rents as houses became harder to get and then national sold even more houses as well as letting a lot of foreigners in to NZ which then caused a shortage of houses, Jacinda has been building thousands of houses to help the lower income families have a home, when rents are $600 to $700 a week for a standard 3 bedroom house people just can not afford it so live in cars until a government house becomes available. The rich see this as Jacindas fault but in reality it's the rich greedy home owners charging excessive rents.
Lou she promised thousands of houses per year but delivered only 1000 total.
Is she the lady that said:'We are the single source of truth'?
yep....
lest we forget - 2 classes of ppl? "yes, it is what it is"
Yes, sadly we now have a split society.
She couldn't tell the truth if came out and bit her on the butt .
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Sign of a strong democracy is when a person can relinquish power and not fall into turmoil.
“ Either you die like a hero or live to see yourself become a villain” Jacinda resigned liked a hero and wasn’t power hungry at all
'federal presidential constitutional republic'. The four words used to describe the U.S. government on Wikipedia. Where's that "democracy" at?
@@hubertcumberdale2651 What a hilarious take! Yes, we have democracy in New Zealand. If fact due to our mixed member parliament system, our government is much more representative of our population than other countries.
@Hubert Cumberdale op is describing new Zealand, not America.
Also democracy and republicanism aren't mutual exclusive.
Hello... She was unelected.
I lived in Sydney in the 80s and there were many New Zealanders who came to Sydney because they couldn't find a job or afford a place to live. This hasn't changed much.
yeap. I left NZ for Sydney 12 years ago. Nothing has changed
@@denskiz1 How do you know? You don’t even live here 🤣 You were probably one of the supposed “1 million kiwis” trying to get home during the pandemic because other countries made such a balls up of their pandemic responses 🤣
Exactly so many kiwis left that country in droves to Australia so what has any NZ PM done to change that....nothing
Pretty much, NZ is beautiful, I wouldnt have left if the oppotunities were soo little, Australia was much easier, no offense to Australians, but the most mediocre Kiwi has better work ethic and education than the average Australian. It was very easy to land a job in my field and buy a house, I felt like a big fish in a little pond here, compared to NZ where only the big fish got the opportunities, I felt so insignificant
@@ichinesanhow is Australia a little pond?
I’d say NZ’s housing crisis is a very serious and difficult problem. Winning popularity contests isn’t going to make you qualified to deal with it
I’d also argue their connections with China are a major issue that is infrequently addressed. When I traveled there in 2019 some locals were telling me about all of their exports going to china. China nearly dominates their industries and receives a huge portion of their exports. They are extremely dependent on China.
@@kutie216they should have stopped foreigners from buying up land and housing a long time ago. It is criminal what is happening with the housing market.
Head of the most incompetent government I saw in my long life. Ardern evidently knew nothing of life, she was just an actress playing a part and that is why it ended as it did. Just look at her CV to understand the problem.
Embarrassing how little this reveals about how terrible she was for this country
do go on - please do educate us - the microphone is yours oh great one
I know!!! After all she was amazing as minister of children,did wonders for the homeless,child poverty,education is outstanding,built a few houses,amazing against crime and criminals,really has made it a great and safe place to live and run a business,the economy is top notch...and who can forget how magic she was as minister of fluffiness in every other country of the world
@@nigelralphmurphy2852 why? Her approval rating was less than 30% when she left. I think the numbers speak for themselves. Even Trump was more popular than she was.
When the big protests happened in Wellington on Parliment grounds, Jacinda didn't have the nerve to speak to them or engage them in dialogue, instead she waited for the police to kick them all out
Genuinely surprised by the fact that her leadership and time as prime minister is actually tact as faulty. Coming from an outsider who's country leader stepped down after regaining confidence during his second time as prime minister, his incompetent successor that nearly bankrupt the country (and still recovering from), his successor after being an absolute joke, and now a diminished hope for an elected leader who all believed was our answer forward. Though, as an outsider, I had not kept a close eye to NZ sadly. To learn this is quite disheartening really.
She still has a fair bit if support out there. Opinion on jacinda is very split.
she pays journalists a "public journalism" fund, millions of dollars to media that would otherwise go under due to their lack of objective journalistic integrity. In return they only write nice things about her and never mention her many awful failings.
@@sonyavincent7450 Only from those who are unaware of her shady dealings.
Don't listen to the haters of Jacinda, unfortunately there was a lot of far right extremists from Amercia pushing their agenda and idiots fall for it. She will go down as one of our best Prime Ministers ever.
@@simc... not the same as NZ
Ardern chose to attribute privileges based on ethnicity and gender at the cost of the majority of New Zealanders. She was all about wokeness, not about fairness. That’s why she was removed from the leadership of the country.
The only policy Farmers can point to is the "proposed" (ie not implemented) regulation on Farming emissions. And for that, they'll play victim non-stop. Its infuriating.
The only government the NZ farming industry will ever be happy with is one that allows for perpetual and unlimited environmental degradation. This has been proven over and over again.
Anything towards farmers is a threat to the food we put on our plates. We do not want farming run by government. And that’s exactly the plan they have. Tighten the belt on farmers till they collapse.
I’m not from NZ, but these moves against farmers under the guise of saving the planet have been happening in pretty much all developed countries and it’s ridiculous. It’s always a move to push the public off of meat, consolidate control of the food supply, or both. Before talk of these types of measures started, emissions in these countries were already in a severe negative slope. It’s progress for the sake of progress with the potential for nefarious intentions along the way
@@3.0ptix So you think there should be absolutely no limits of any sort on what farmers can do?
Such a stupid policy...Why don't they tax the people who eat?
There are a lot of factors that go amiss here. One that I learned coming out of the pandemic was from an older colleague, I was explaining to him that I was considering growing my business in NZ or moving overseas to which he replied - "I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter - leave. Roger Douglas installed his economic system in 1980 and the country never recovered."
From there I did a bit more research and realized the country has been broken since neoliberalism, all the pandemic did was unmask the issues. Ardern and Labour have done a good enough job of holding the country together, but sadly the problems stem way back and won't be resolved under National leadership.
Don’t agree she had her own agenda which is yet to be seen.
@@sylviaspandow-tassi5644 every politician has an agenda. Jacindas has been scrutinised more than most because of the pandemic and tall poppy syndrome, And possibly because she’s a woman. However if
You do the research you’ll realise the country was broken well before she came on the scene.
The neoliberal reforms of rogernomics were seen as painful but necessary measures. Some of the reforms such as removing farm subsidies, while painful, benefitted us in the long term. Labor had inherited a huge debt and rampant inflation from the Muldoon government, so It was going to suck either way. If rogernomics was the tip, the subsequent Jim Bolger government was the shaft of the proverbial neo-liberal dildo.
Every post middle aged person I talk to gives me a wildly different opinion on those times. Some say it was the ultimate savior of the country, others say we got royally fucked.
@@DinoPimp Ha ha, some great analogies there. Im sure you're right the subtle nuances of the insertion should be discussed and would take longer than what's available here - The main thing I'm aware of with ol' mate Roger was the dismantling of the social safety nets that were holding the country together, along with the disinvestment in infrastructure. (don't forget in 1900 Auckland was the leading public transport city in the world).
And the main point I'm interested to stress here is - It's not Jacinda's fault. All of this has been going on for decades. People are just looking for a scapegoat.
For myself, I took that colleague's suggestion and moved last August to Melbourne and it has highlighted to me what a healthy functional society looks like.
Douglas installed a pro-business system at the expense of everything else. So it could be a good place to grow a business depending on how outward looking it is. If anything broke during those reforms it was a collective nationwide spirit. Afterwards, everything became looking out for yourself instead of considering we are a 'we'.
she put the people of New Zealand last and foreigners first
No she didn't. If she did, she wouldn't have passed the foreign investment bill restricting how much property overseas buyers can sell. It was National who brought that back in, and entrenched it in law so now our country doesn't even have he right to restrict them anymore. Look it it up, it's not like there was a lack of people explaining it to you during the election.
The number one thing that makes me upset is jacinda adren promises things then completely failed let's end homeless and fix the housing crisis then she doubled the refugee quota to 1500 a year while the government is spending one million a day on emergency housing that's 365 million dollars a year new Zealand has gone backwards not forwards
Good luck, New Zealand, you'll need it.
I think we will be fine😂
@@PeachesiceT Yeah you'll make a fine US colony. The Imperialists are foaming at the mouth at taking over the anglosphere. But you are sound asleep. Trust me our conservatives are not.
As an outsider commentator, how can you comment on our political situation purely based off speculation or by forming a naive opinion based on news-edited/biased news? Jacinda is not well-liked like how many international news outlets liked to portray her as. Yes, she is well-spoken, however behind that kind, motherly facade issues have been piling up, and only people living in NZ will truly understand the situation.
You can do a similar report on Justin Trudeau in Canada.
Her hospital pass to Hipkins , and then subbing herself off was textbook. “OMG they hate me and now the party as well. I’ll give it all to Hipkins and get the hell out of here before it all falls apart. “
LOL is all I gotta say. Worst Prime Minister in NZ history. Good riddance
It’s amazing how so many foreigners will admire a country’s leader, when that country’s citizens will think that are so-so or not great at all. Trudeau being another one…
As a Canadian Tudeau is brilliant, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Yeah because they dont see the aftermath of what everyone has to go through, just what the media shows them.
As a kiwi believe me it’s a minority kicking up a fuss. Most of us actually have respect for what she’s lead our country through.
@@iceman18211 just dont ask him to add small numbers, he cant do math, plus dont expect him to hold any ethical standards, plus he loves to give our money to his friends, and he cant really do much with his handlers like feed himself.
@@JohnDoe-gg6kc What are you talking about man? Canada's GDP is growing like crazy, hope he gets 4 more years, rather than those NDP or CON guys.
I left NZ in the late 90's. Although I had always been a good earner, it had become impossible for a single person to buy even the most modest of houses. What ten years before sold for 50,000 NZD was now up for sale at 200,000 NZD. There was no accounting for it, apart from pure greed on the part of property speculators but inflation was starting to rear it's ugly head already. Nowadays, people find it hard to feed their families. Nobody slept in their cars in the 90's. There simply weren't homeless people. Renting wasn't difficult and the welfare system wasn't the hateful mess it is now. Now as I look at the state of affairs in that country, I'm satisfied that my decision to leave permanently was the right one. I doubt that the mess is all Adhern's fault, as the rot set in 20 years ago, but she didn't deliver on any of her promises. All talk and no substance.
Where did you end up moving too?
When a country is accepting immigrants - rule of thumb is NEVER SELL A HOUSE IN A BIG CITY
This is basically Australia atm.
@@saramshagorkhali101 This is Canada as well !! Canada accepted 450k immigrants this year to give you a perspective, and Toronto housing market exploded in last 10 years.
Where did you go then
Stoked for you to do a video like this on Trudeau.
She was horrific
they didn't even interview her real critics
Sounds about right..
Like Brian Tamaki, they should have interviewed him to get the real truth
@@jaredoelderink-wale350 Tamaki couldnt make money off his sermons so he became a conspiracy nut and started charging for his events. Whos really the sheep here
@@jaredoelderink-wale350 "the real truth" lmao do you realize how stupid you sound? You mean the "truth" that aligns with your particular world view, begotten from years of brainwashing in he midst of your tiny little echo chamber.
Stop being a sheep. No one side holds the absolute truth. Everyone is questionable and can be criticized. Learn nuance
Be brave
I have one question to people who live in high cost-of-living areas like NZ and CA: Why are you willing to pay so much in taxes if you don't see that return in your quality of life? The whole point of pooling funds to redistribute them is that it should be easier for you to live, not harder.
You're not wrong, but that's assuming that there are good viable alternatives in their political system. Replacing con artists with con artists (sorry for the pessimism 😄 )
I agree, it is expensive to live here. My step dad always used to say, 'It's expensive to live in Paradise'. I've done a little bit of travelling, and whilst I am very biased, there's literally no where like Aotearoa. Sure, we have problems, every single country does, but you will not live a better life anywhere else in the world, and most New Zealanders fail to recognise how goddamm lucky we are to have what we have
@Kevin Fleming sorry I actually meant California at the time, not canada. I have no idea what the CoL is in Canada.
We have relatively low taxes on an international scale.
Be we do have free health care and a lot of other benefits.
Living in CA I like that our state came together to get rid of mosquitos with my tax dollars. The roads are also of top-notch quality. I get a quite high salary, and while the taxes are high, they’re not as high as you may think. I actually paid more on taxes in Texas bc the property taxes there are crushing. Plus, California is just so beautiful. I got bored after a few weeks in Houston since there’s just not anything to do, no hiking trails nearby. San Fran has so many, and nice ones too. So, I guess you pay for what you get 🤷♂️
I think I can safely say the majority, or close to, of Wellingtonians never went off her. Lots of regional people and small business owners have been turned off her, but she still has many, many supporters in the capital.
Those with money. Those with a house. Those who aren't affected by the crime/drugs issues. They support Aunty, but not anyone else.
We in Auckland. cant stand her, she put us in continuous lockdowns to the point 30-40% of small business did not survive, people lost their homes, had to rehome pets. We did it the hardest and we voted her in! She NEVER visited the victims of the Sandringham ram raids and murder - HER own electorate! She dug her own grave. She killed what Auckland use to be and it is so sad.
@@louisavondart9178 and were you so loving to key when he destroyed the ability to own a house and the crime rate was just as bad but hypocritical national voters always blame labour and have never been good at self-reflection
@@louisavondart9178 She has the whole Maori community as well
Many in Wellington couldn't bear her . Certainly most people i know thought she was dreadful..
Back on track now, the Labour regime is well and truly gone. And by the way Ardern wasn't elected in '17, she as a PM was a huge mistake by Winston Peters unfortunately and all NZers have paid for that dearly.
She didn't step down just to preserve her legacy but also for the labour party's benefit.
She was also GATVOL of all the upstream swimming against a currant of people always bringing her down. It is tiresome.
Yep ,as soon as the interview with the farmer occurred I’m like ok , this is bad journalism
It was a long drive to look at some cows.
Yup should have been a bludger like you
the people that they reference were some of the most controversial leaders in the world
the cabinet penetrators... vice is sponsored by them. This is P.R. , propaganda , damage control and rewriting history.
No one likes a dictator .
She's a tyrant.
oohh the tyranny... Stalin was a tyrant.. grow up, you're past your middle age and still acting like a child.
Indeed, the true sign of a Tyrant is when they step down from power voluntarily.
@@caad5258 Yes indeed!! The worlds biggest tyrants have stepped down right when their 5 year old child is starting their first days at school. THE TYRANNY OF IT ALL!!!
@@caad5258 You can be oppressive and give up power. These are not mutually exclusive actions.
New Zealand truly is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
No mention of Three Waters?
Canada’s PM needs to take notes.
I'm from New Zealand and yes we are fucked atm
Its all a farce. We’ve had a conservative economy for generations we got enough money in the coffers to last us through any storm like we did in covid. Theres a big snatch going on and the parties are all in on it
No one with real empathy could act as tyrannically as Ardern did. Her trampling of human and civil liberties rights was appalling.
Amen
I was looking in the comments for a true statement like yours
Betcha still every night because trump lost :) enjoy, bish.
A global favorite of whom, WEF?
Thats funny im pretty sure everyone hates her.
Very similar to Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin
She should be jailed for the rest of her miserable life.
I hope her new career running in horse races has gone better
I'm a New Zealander that despised Ardern and everything she stood for. She had no real world skills or knowledge and was completely out of her depth. That didn't stop the endless gas lighting, though.
New Zealanders are pretty tolerant people and believe in giving others a chance. If things dont go to plan, its usually ok that didnt go to well lets fix it up. The patience and tolerance runs out fast when you can see & be affected by stuff ups, things going backwards along with a whole hidden agenda of policy/projects never mentioned or hinted when running for election. Every family in NZ has been affect by "her Labour Govt" policies and not for the better - from the inferior fuel we now import, the mandate issue, our health and education systems..... facts speak for them selves & more are affected by it.
Her policies have been overwhelmingly positive. Every dumb dumb thinks she is single-handedly responsible for global inflation
She didn't decide to close marsden, the bloody wealthy shareholders did "On August 6, 2021, Refining NZ shareholders voted to stop refining and for Marsden Point to become an import terminal, with the loss of 240 jobs". Thats the problem with this whole bullshit article isnt it? A loud vocal minority blaming the government for everything while simtuainlsly being iggnorant to the information or facts on the issues. Its almost like half of New Zealand likes to whine a lot isn't it?
@@New_Zealand_ I think NZ has become unpleasant because we're in a global cost of living crisis! Rather than anything related to the government babe.
People are divided and angry because that is what the times are like, nothing to do with Jacinda. It's social media.
These radical changes were signalled years ago when the labour party comissoned working groups regarding them. and they're good for the most part
I can totally expect Lange doing something like this, he did when he destroyed our welfare state
@@New_Zealand_ people have never been so divided and angry...I mean have you never heard of the Springbok Tour? The Foreshaw Issue under Helen Clark? The selling off of national industries by the fourth labour government and how voters were so angry they creater "NewLabour"? Jacinda is polarising but I definetly agree with the previous commenter; global crisis makes domestic problems worse.
I know next to nothing about politics in NZ but I can tell you that the crisis you’re experiencing is the same in the uk and many other countries. Corporate interests rule and they continue to record huge profits while the rest of us struggle to survive. What role politicians play in this is open to debate I guess.
When she smiled as she said the Suicide rate had grown,that was the last straw,millions saw that,and the hate grew more intense.
Yip she smiled while talking about youth mental health & youth suicide
As a Kiwi and someone who adored her to an extent. Dealing with Covid19, white island and the Terror attack I am proud of her. The farmers export their produce first and formost. They still make money but New Zealanders pay more for produce. Farmers are not looking after the country and have destroyed most of our rivers, now un swimmable, fishable or usable. Housing is a world wide problem (the critics here need to get out more to learn more). NZ went well through COVID not due to COVID but due to the measures she took. The country should be greatful. Sexist NZ is the old NZ. Yes, we led the way with a lot but we did the opposite too. She helped us get our Maori language, values and traditions back as a focus for ongoing development. This I love. But...
World wide there is right now masisve racist agendas that no one is doing anything about. It is fasionable for the times to be racist against white races. It is taught in our schools in NZ that whites must take a back step and kids can be bullied for being white (regardless if the child is a light skinned Maori, I am alsoa light skinned Maori, my wife dark skinned. our kids mixed.). *this is a world wide problem. eg. the USA right now has anti slavery pushed while there are more slaves in Africa owned by blacks today than ever were taken by non blacks to the USA. Correct me if I am wrong :). This is a whole new topic which needs addressed because of the current modern slavery in Aisa and Africa that florishes because the world is focussed on fashionable agendas. Not to mention that whites were once slaves (much larger scale not too long earlier- but lets not bring up the past... where did the world slave come from... Slav, Slavic ????)It is a world wide fashion from the USA that has spread. Yes the USA has about 80% whites (I am guessing) but the world itself is 60% Aisan. Add in latinos (depending if it is positive or negative where the world classifies latinos as white or brown). Add in Middle East, then Africa and you realize whites are a minority. Bubble just popped right? But lets not talk about it as it goes against the fashion of the times today. I have a son and a daughter. I want my daughter to have the same oppertunities as my son and vice versa. But I do nit want her to get a job because she is a girl or him to miss out because he is a male. All big bussinesses are doing this today and Jacinda supported it. The pay gap mis based on work not gender! We are fools to just look at bank accounts. The LGBTQ+ community should not be a community. It should be within us all. We have created an external community and in the future will cause havoc for them. Equality is equility. Like John Lennons song Imagine. This is what we need! The lyrics are the guide to solving everything world wide. Now I am on a rant. I love Jacnda. I have also tavelled, I speak other languages and have been other places. I am a proud New Zealander, Maori, Caucasian (Scottish desent) and proud Muslim man. I do not disklie the LGBTQ+ however I do dislike the pornography some of the community promotes in public. New Zealand is hurt. The world is hurt. We fight over stupid topics and miss the oppertunities to grow togther.
Sorry for the Rant. Jacinda was trying to do the right thing. Vice, you interviewed a farmer who comes from a trade that has destroyed our country and lined their own pockets. Not the best candidte for advice. Jacinda tried but the world is messed up with race, gender and life. I love and admire her but she never had the stregnth to stand up and recognize that too far in any direction is wrong!
Lies
@brenandemossita1000 nope, 100% truth. You'll see it too if you opened your eyes.
add to that, when covid was new it was damn scary, hundreds of thousands were dying all around the world with hot spots changing. The 1st variant went unchallenged by medicine as vaccines were still being hurriedly developed and then the 2nd variant arrived posing an even more deadly potential. There became a strong focus by the Labour Govt to minimise our risk by using all the methods that were implemented while monitoring the population vaccination percentage to hold off relaxing restraints until a certain degree of risk to life could be best protected. All the while providing extremely expensive financial support to so many, people came before money. It can never be known just how many lives were saved by these actions but it has been estimated in the thousands, so maybe me or someone in my family, or you or someone in your family is still alive today because of the actions taken by the Jacinda led Labour Govt. That to me is a huge huge debt of thanks owed by all of us.
The new trend in NZ is to make sure you do not lose! Better to step down than get ass kicked John Key did the same
yeh, "balanced" but not a lot of analysis. doesn't seem you can discuss the perception of her in New Zealand without connecting to the larger state of political polarization. she was merely a lightning rod for that difference. outside of that, and unique with respect to her, was her personalistic manner. discussion of that and its potential to "cross the political divide" may have been a good focus for a story about her
Easy summation as to why. Huge promises no delivery.
i'm a nzer. i don't remember any promises. what were they?
@@nigelralphmurphy2852 you can looks this up on the internet, there proposed policy etc. get off your but and look it up
Good to cover this. Her perception domestically and internationally were poles apart. Not many people see inside New Zealand or hear what she did.
What love empathy and kindness did Ardern have for the peaceful parliament protesters that she slandered and had beaten and abused by the bully cops she rewarded
Love, empathy, and kindness went sadly missing from her politics when confronted with views that got in the way of her agenda.
Yep, she was a real rightwing dictator.
@@avpr1574 as with Albo and Trudeau, I call them "fake left". They ride the rainbow painted identity politics gravy train while allowing every plutocratic corporate interest that is only interested in economic rent to gut the working and middle classes. Good riddance Jacinda!
Like you being allowed to murder who you want, or spit on who you want.
-Leader says it actually wants to help.
-People are happy, and get unrealistic expectations.
-Unrealistic expectations could not be met.
-People are angry and awaiting next savior God.
-New leader says it actually wants to help.
Nailed it.
These homeless crisis is west is war on white people.. they invite rich immigrants, refugees in large numbers without building new housing infrastructure..
We all know how this ends....
Nah that's not what went down
Your English is terrible
@@originaldelta So is your mom, yet I don't seem to make such a fuss about it.
She brought no hope, that cabinet is the worst in NZ history
She was popular on Twitter and world economic forum that’s it .. delusional as Trudeau
Unfortunately showing will always be more important than doing in Politics. Everyone kept saying "she cared about people" but that doesn't really mean much without actions to back it up. I am not saying I agree or disagree with the views expressed on the video, which by the way felt kind of superficial and one-sided.
It was only made possible because we're in such an era of virtue signaling. That's what's led to this nonsense.
at the end of the day, people just don't like dictators, be it male or female.
@@griffinpeters38 N Korea, Russia, China, New Zealand communists demonstrate different forms of that. She was very similar to Muldoon on that level.
She used covid to go from darling to despot. Just another minion of the WEF
Not even far in yet but I bet someone’s gonna mention “whokeness”
The woke virus is taking over our society
If you go by the definition of wokeness from the US justice system, I don't understand why you don't agree with it.
shut up
@@arcticwulf5796 EXACTLY..👍🏼
To be fair your the first. Are you trying to steer the ship??
5:18 Bishop has been called out on this claim numerous times as the reports specifically mention they do not calculate children.
Like their gang numbers claim, or 80% of kids failed school, or so. many. others.
Although I'm not sure if it counts as ironic that one of the things they did when National got in was kid kids out of emergency housing then refuse to count how many they made homeless. Oh, and hungry and now they've stopped food for kids in school
I would fucking love for the politicians of my country (Poland) to step down when they are no longer supported. It would be a dream come true!
It’s not like that most of the times. Politicians try to hold to power as long as they can, not making any change or growth, just holding the power for themselves.
I envy New Zealand people at power like her.
No chance , he is anti Russia and he got all support for American military industrial complex to continue the anti Russia policy.
No regime change happening in Poland, no need to say about how media world in Poland.
She's a WEF student, she's just playing the game and taking one for the team.
@@randomguy7175 I know it’s hard for you to admit that you’re just a Putin baby bra warrior LMAO
She was a "useful tool" She is now a "useless eater" like the rest of us... to paraphrase that wonderful humanitarian, William Gates.
She will be remembered as a tyrant
Farmers will never, ever vote for Labour - no matter what their policies. Farming and rural communities are safe National regions / seats, but sometimes these folk have their head in the clouds, about the need to clean up their act and impact on the environment (particularly waterways.) It does however remain that Ardern lost control of the narrative around some of her policies, but in fairness was dealing with a pretty challenge in COVID at the time. NZ remains one of the lower countries for inflation in OECD, despite the rhetoric....
I feel like this could've been a longer video and more in-depth. It sort of gives a brief overview of what's happening and a couple reasons why, but I think the "why" part could be further elaborated on.
michael wood said shed be remembered as someone with immense empathy, ask every new zealander who lost their job and was deemed a second class citizen by Ardern if they feel the same way
Glad she stood down...
She Destroyed livelyhoods with Mandates...
She finally saw the writing on the wall. Evil is that evil does. 😮
The vile creature should be in jail.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous grants to medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations for the purpose of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.
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She screwed up veeeery badly and got so good pay for that. WOW.
In short... the opposite of what she said she would bring is what we received.
Thank you. A more realistic portrayal rather than the fawning from overseas.
An awfull awfull human being
The problem is that many in NZ are very much still in love with her. Did her popularity take a hit in the aftermath of covid? Yes, but it was already high and as preferred PM she still polled top. The issue is that her party took a significant hit almost certainly because of the same thing.
Those headwinds combined with the stressors compounding because of what happened in the job probably led her to make the choice to seek more accommodating employment.
Too bad she didn't put her notice in sooner but then again it's not as if we wouldn't have just got another stooge who would've toed the same line.
no she wasn't she was falling like a lead balloon. and there will be an inquiry into her handling of a certain pan demic. she saw this coming. then again she bought/gagged the media with an order by a dirty defence attorney in the case of her coke-snorting bed partner clark. once that comes out and it is being worked on, she will be toast as far as her reputation is concerned. hence the tears at leaving office. sorry for herself.
left wing vermin cant govern